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20 Will good be repaid for evil?
For they dug a pit for my soul.
Remember how I stood before You
    to speak good on their behalf,
    to turn Your wrath from them.
21 Therefore give their children to famine
    and pour out the power of the sword.
    Let their wives be bereaved of children, and widows,
    and let their men be slain to death,
    and their young men struck down by the sword in battle.
22 Let a cry be heard from their houses
    when suddenly You bring a troop on them.
    For they dug a pit to capture me,
    and hid snares for my feet.

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